The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-31

that not five in every one hundred men are fit
subjects for association with pure woman, to
become pure woman's husband. Here is q
gauntlet for some male champion to take up.
REAL-EsTATE values at Sioux City, Iowa, are
being seriously interfered with by the ravaees
of the Missouri river cutting into the bank.
Several hundred feet Of valuable property have
disappeared during the past few days.
SINCE the death of John Taylor, late presi-
dent of the Mormon Church. the fact is recalled
that ne was terribly wounded with bullets at
the hands of the mob who slew j oseph and
Hiram Smith in an attack on the Jail at
Carthage, Ill, on June 81, 1884. Taylor's life
was despaired of for many weeks He went
west with the Mormons some time in 1886
REV" Abbott the Chesterton, Ind, preacher
who deserted his family and off with the
servant girl is unquestionably bad man. but
even the devil should have his due, and it must
be said that the facts yet developed do not war
rant anything more than a mere suspicion that
he was guilty of her DEATH AT all events, the
finding of paper of arsenic among his effects
can hardly be called conclusive. since it is shown
that there were two and half pounds of the
drug and that it is an article used in silver
platers' solutions. AS Mr.. Abbott engaged
in the work of silver-platng at the time of the
girls death and as he would hardly be likely to
buy two pounds and half of poison to kill her
with, the sin of murder is perhaps not to be
added to his list of offenses.
THE English Bishop of Lincoln is the subjeca
Of sharp criticism in certain quarters because of
the attentions ne paid to a condemned wife-mur-
derer. 1t is charged that the bishop not only
visited the man frequently but that he admins
I'D
cution, although the crime committed was a
particularly brutal one: and there was no evil
dence so far the outside world knew, that
he had repented his deed. At all events,
whether he had repentsd and was converted" or
not. it was felt by portion of the public that
the sacramental cup desecrated by touch
lug such villainous lips. The bishop is asked
whether he would propose that murderer as a
member of his club. and if not, whether by such
refusal he was not doing injustice to worthy
in his opinion 30 associate with the holy Trinity.
The bishop has not answered these conundrums,
but the protest against the display of ecclesias-
teal devotion to brutal criminals is likely to
check the custom.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. SoUTHwoRTH's novels do
not rank very high in the field of fiction. but
they pay her pretty we'll She has written about
forty, and their sales yield her an income of
about $4,000 year. in addition to which Mr.
Robert Bonner pays her a salary of 900 a
year for her stories in the New York Ledger
This would indicate that in spite of the critics
there are good many people who read Mrs.
Southworths novels But they are not critical.
Mrs. Southworth's married life not happy.
A lady who knows the story says:
when but a mere girl she married Frederick
South worth. of Cincinnati. The union was un-
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her husband deserted her. Some years after
ward influential friends urged her to seek a
divorce. At that time the Maryland divorce
law in operation in the District of Colum bia,
and being derived from English jurisprudence,
was, matter of course, cumbersome. costly
and vexatious The friends of Mrs. Southworth
induced Congress to pass bill regulating divorces
in the District the act expressly stating that it
for the benefit of Mrs Emma ID. E. n.
Southworth. But she never awaited herself of
it. She opposed to divorce conscientious
grounds. Since that time it has not been diff
cult to procure a divorce at the of govern
ment Her husband has been dead over
twenty six years"
A RATHER Improbable discussion concerning
the realistic tendencies of modern fiction is being
carried on just in the literary periodicals.
1t was opened by Mr.. Howels, who, naturally
enough. maintains that realism is not only
merit, but that the novelist who pursues this
method to its greatest possibilities is the true
list. This assertion has, of course, drawn much
criticism upon Mr.. Howells, and his position, as
we'll as his method of work. has been fercely
sailed by number of able writer's, themselves
novests also. Mr.. Arlo Bates for instance,
presents some very effective arguments in one of
the current magazines against the use of the |
mental Photographic camera, the microscope
and dssecting tools the sole outfit needed |
by one who essays to deineate human nature.
school, however. some verses by John Boyle |
OReilly entitled IAN Art Master" said master |
being one who gathered cherry-stones and |
carved them quantity" The verses have ap- |
peared in the Journal before, but the closing |
lines will bear repetition.
Says Mr. O'Reilly:
His little blocks he loved to file and polish;
And ampler means he asked not, but despised.
All art but cherry stones he would abolish.
For then his genius would be rightly priced
For such rude hands as dealt with wrongs and pas
And throbbing hearts he had plying smile;
Serene his way through surging years and fashions,
While Heaven gave him cherry-stones and ile.'
Whether the poet had the author of April
Hopes" in mind not when writing these verses
readers will at once recognize his likeness to the
'.Art Master" and feel that nothing more keenly
critical can be said
THE Concord philosophers gave Aristotle
rest the other day and went to garden party,
given in their honor by admlring literary
ady. It must not be supposed that the guests
On this festive occasion descended from the
yiddy heights of philosophy to engage in frivolous
games of tennis or croouet even relaxed the
Intellectual strain to which they had recently
been subject by. INDUCING in simple tea and
small talk. So sudden descent to the level of
common mortals might have been fatal and they
avoided it by reading and discussing papers on
various easy themes. Among other light and
airy subjects that up, probation after
leath" seemed to excite the greatest interest
among the philosophers. This is not topic that
The average human being would select for |